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Ethics in OR 30th Satellite Event State of the Art Workshop Operation Research and Ethics, Societal Complexity and Governance: The EWG OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity The OR and Ethics EURO Working group is dealing with ethical dimensions of Operational Research (OR). By ethics we understand moral, (descriptive) normative, political principles, regimes and structures. Therefore, the group is particularly focused on using OR for the “common good”, to “make an impact”, and to address societal challenges. Since 2017 two Euro Working Groups (EWG), the EWG OR and Ethics (1996) and the previous EWG Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) (1993), went together due to a significant overlap of the content of their research field. Both EWGs focus at ethical subjects in doing research on the topic of improving the way of living for all people. Giving that each researcher has only one life, the members of both these research groups decided to dedicate their scientific lives, research capability, brains and efforts to improve the living conditions of all the people in the world in order to make the world a better place to live. This idea of research often includes criticizing issues and circumstances that abuse privacy or provoke danger, like unethical use of data mining for companies, unethical use of social media, abuse of health of people by the alcohol and tobacco industry, criticize unethical labor conditions like child labor, meanwhile improving the position of women by emphasizing education of women, especially in developing countries, by being financial independent, by forbidding child marriages, and stimulate equal pay for equal jobs given that women rights are human rights. Reflecting and handling these kind of complex societal ethical problems has been the focus of the researchers belonging to the EWG OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity. The latter one turned from European to a worldwide research group. In most complex societal problems, some persons benefit while most people suffer. Given this reality the researchers of our EWG research group of OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity like a responsible bound of minimalizing the personal benefit for those who profits from complex problems, like the banks who created the credit crisis and the pharmacy industry who benefited for dangerous drugs and Covid vaccinations and to maximize the situation of all people in a social based democracy where all people can be protected by the rule of law. The EWG Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) is a part of the International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC), founded and chaired by Prof. Dr. Dorien DeTombe, created in 1993. The International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) and the EWG Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) has since 1993 organized many conferences in all continents all over the world and published many books and articles in scientific journals, see http://www.complexitycourse.org. The EWG Methodology of Societal Complexity organizes each year special sessions on this topic on the EURO conferences of the Association of European OR Societies along with the EWG OR and Ethics. Methodology of Societal Complexity focuses on methodologies, methods and tools for analyzing, structuring, advising, guiding and evaluating complex societal problems. Complex societal problems are often policy problems that can occur in many fields, like in the agro-industry (water pollution by too much manure, fowl plague), in the transportation sector, in healthcare (Malaria, HIV/Aids, Flu, Covid), in water affairs and in economy (credit crisis). The field focuses on handling local safety problems like large city issues and natural disasters as flood, earthquakes and hurricanes and global safety problems like climate change and terrorism. Although many of these issues have different causes, they have so much in common that they can be approached in the same way by using the Compram methodology, a methodology based on the cooperation of experts of different fields and actors and the opinion of the people in a democratic way. Complex societal problems, as such, are unstructured, dynamical, constantly changing and have a large impact on society on macro, meso and micro level. Handling complex societal problems needs a special multi-disciplinary approach. The content knowledge comes from content experts. The process knowledge comes from facilitators. The power is in the hand of actors. The attention of the research of Methodology of Societal Complexity is on the methods and tools facilitators need for guiding these kinds of problems. The facilitators use methodologies specially created for the field of societal problems combined with methods and insights derived from fields like medicine, law, economics, societal sciences, methodology, mathematics, computer sciences, technology, engineering sciences, socio-cybernetic, chaos theory and operational research combined with content knowledge of the specific problem. Often a combination of methods is needed as is prescribed by the framework methodology for handling complex societal problems. The Operational Research (EURO) branch OR and Ethics: Operational Research and Ethics, was created in 2001 at EURO XVIII by Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Brands of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. The goal of OR and Ethics is creating increasing interest on ethical issues in OR research, teaching, consultancy and practice. This can be reached by organizing OR and Ethics on the EURO and IFORS conferences. At the 32th EURO conference in Espoo/Aalto/Finland (2022), OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity organized eight lectures and a 30th Satellite Event State of the Art Workshop. Chairs of the EWG OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity Prof. Dr. Dorien DeTombe, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China, detombe@nosmo.nl EWG Methodology for Complex Societal Problems (MSC), EWG EUROPT, EWG OR for Development Founder and Chair International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe, https://www.researchgate.net/project/Handling-Societal-Complexity. Prof. Dr. Cathal Brugha, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, EURO MCDA, Emeritus Professor, focused on Governance and Nomology, Cathal.Brugha@ucd.ie. https://people.ucd.ie/cathal.brugha; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/C-Brugha. Award: https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/255/distinguished-service-award-edsa. Board members (see https://www.euro-online.org/websites/ethicsandor/board-members/): Dr. Rossen Kazakov, rossen.kazakov@ucd.ie Prof. Dr. Pierre Kunsch, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, pkunsch@vub.ac.be Dr. Semih Kuter, semihkuter@yahoo.com Dr. Cindy Ricarda Roberts, cindyricardaroberts@gmail.com Prof. Dr. Ulrike Reisach, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Bavaria, Commissioner of International Affairs, Ulrike.Reisach@hnu.de Dr. Magda Wagner, m.wagner@o2.pl Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wilhelm Weber, University of Poznan, Poland, gerhard.weber@put.poznan.pl, IAM, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, EWG EUROPT, EWG EURO Continuous Optimization, EWG OR for Development, IFORS Fellow. EURO working groups, initiatives and projects related to EWG OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity are: EWG EUROPT, EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization EWG OR for Development EURO MCDA OR for the Common Good: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Operational-Research-for-Common-Good Keywords: Governance, Methodology, Complex Societal Issues, Decisions, Sustainable Development, Healthcare, Economy Amsterdam, Dorien DeTombe, Gerhard Wilhelm Weber and Ulrike Reisach |
